Sample Sentences forproselytize (auto-selected)
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Perhaps the answer is that we have entrusted our city to a group of proselytizing tyrants who do not know how to lead us out of poverty and into prosperity. (source)proselytizing = trying to change others' core beliefs
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The initial goals were twofold: one, to proselytize the Trisolaran religion; and two, to allow the tentacles of the ETO to spread from the highly educated intelligentsia to the lower social strata, and recruit younger ETO members from the middle and lower classes.† (source)
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Our policy was to be friendly, to take an interest, to compliment them on their achievements, but not to proselytize.† (source)
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They don't proselytize; they don't stand in pulpits or on party platforms and tell us to fight for Peace or for God or whatever it is.† (source)
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She did not try to proselytize, only intimating to Sophie that for the suffering of her own imprisonment she would find ample reward in Jehovah's Kingdom.† (source)
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Perrin's church was about to fail as well; by embracing refugees the church found new vitality, and of course, as evangelicals, members of the old Clarkston Baptist Church were able to successfully proselytize among Muslims and other non-Christians.† (source)
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I know she had the ring before Dad served a mission—which was expected of all faithful Mormon men—and spent two years proselytizing in Florida.† (source)
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For Perrault had come to preach and proselytize, whereas Henschell took a more immediate interest in the gold deposits.† (source)
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I'm not a proselytizer, I'm no evangelist.† (source)
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Pose as survey takers, bill collectors, insurance runners delivering checks, door-to-door proselytizers, whatever might be believable, but talk to the neighbors and learn what you can without being suspicious.† (source)
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It is remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine happiness and a real recreation for the scholars.† (source)
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Pappa, I'm not going to proselytise.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it proselytize.
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He was capable of maintaining companionable silences, indeed, often seemed to prefer them to talk, and he made light conversation at least as often as he proselytized.† (source)
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In his free time he travelled around and did proselytising for Nazism.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it proselytizing.
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The good people of Hyperion have done nothing to foist their religious opinions on me, so I see no reason to offend them with my proselytizing.† (source)
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She was a much more persistent proselytizer than any prisoner I had known in Danbury.† (source)
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